13) He composed about twenty works in Latin, including works of biblical commentary, a poem to the Virgin, a Latin gloss on the psalter, and treatises and works of instruction such as Incendium Amoris and his most popular work, Emendatio Vitae.

26) In the works of Rolle's middle period, however (the Incendium amoris, Super Canticum canticorum, Contra amatores mundi, and Melos amoris), this circular mode of reasoning is applied to the experience of love, and in particular the experience of the three characteristic motifs known by the contemplative, 'heat' (calor), 'sweetness' (dulcor), and 'song' (canor).

However, the swift excuses and departure of the guests at the chaotic end of the dinner is very likely to have been the last event in the Cena proper, and again the physical departure of narrator or protagonist is a common form of poetic closure found in epic:(13) here we might compare the end of Aeneid 2, where Aeneas leaves Troy in flames with his father on his back (804), a departure from a real incendium, or the end of Aeneid 6, where Aeneas leaves the underworld, to which Trimalchio's house has been interestingly compared?

Chaucer's solution was the creation of an authorial persona; Watson suggests that the 'autobiographical' passages in Rolle's writing, especially the well-known introduction to Incendium Anton's, had a similarly manipulative function.

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